GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1707, 24 March 1906, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

By;, telegraph, Press Aas’p, Copyright London, Maroh 22.

Ellen Trevor, a servant, asked the Divorce Court', to declare legal her marriage with Harry Ashcroft, son of the ex* Mayor of Bootle. The defence admitted intimacy, but denied the marriage, and alleged that the signa« ture on the registry was forged. The Judge decided that the parties were marriod.

Brussels, Maroh 22. Two thousand miners at Mons have struck for an increase in wages. New York, Maroh 22. A gang of Italian and Hungarian navvies at Marion, North Carolina, attacked the foreman. The latter, in self-defence, mowing down, killed seven with a crowbar in three minutes. The others fled. The Hamburg-American liner Deutschland maintained wireless communication from New York to Lizard Point. The 'plague precautions, giving a capitation payment for rats and mice, has been revived. The manager of the Proprietary mine reports, in connection with the fire, that “ everything is going swimming.” Maniapoto, after slow work, galloped seven furlongs on the grass track under lmin 30sec, in great style, being the best performance over the distance seen at Rand wick. Melbourne, March 23, The Australian Natives Conference resolved in favor of the establishment of an Australian Navy, to act in conI junction with the British Navy in time of war. Fremantle, March 23. Another person has been plagued. Hobart, March 23.

The Presbyteiiau Assembly accepted the offer of the Rev. Riddle, a New Zealand missionary, to supervise Epi district, in the New Hebrides.